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Welcome to KNIT, UC San Diego’s pilot Digital Commons!
Click here to find out how you can use KNIT to build community and collaborate across campus.
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Create a group
Find out how to use KNIT to build community and facilitate communication for research groups, courses, committees, or special interest groups.
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Create a site
Create customizable WordPress websites to showcase your research, host course discussion, provide public resources, develop your online presence and more.
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The Library’s Digital Media Lab
Check out exciting resources for 3D printing and advanced media production at the Library's Digital Media Lab!
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Digital Arts & Humanities Initiatives
Learn about exciting new digital arts & humanities initiatives, projects, and resources happening on campus.
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Recent Blog Posts
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erin glass edited the blog post How to use KNIT in your teaching to foster collaboration and digital literacy in students in the group
Digital Humanities: 5 days, 1 hour agoImplementing blogs in your course activities can be a great way to cultivate lively intellectual exchange between students. Many educators find that requiring weekly reading reflections on course blogs helps prepare students for classroom discussion and formal writing assignments. Course blogs also introduce students to valuable digital literacy…[Read more]
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Scott Mcavoy edited the blog post Sculpting the Sungod in the group
Digital Humanities: 2 weeks agoJorenne is learning to sculpt with meshmixer, it’s a fun workflow. Like digital clay. It’s definitely not as powerful as Maya or Blender, but it’s a hundred times more accessible.We chose to try recreating UCSD’s favorite derpybird. We 3D printed with a wood blend filament and painted it up with sharpie oil based paint pens (from the book…[Read more]
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Scott Mcavoy edited the blog post Fallen Star 3D Model in the group
Digital Humanities: 2 weeks agoUC San Diego is known for the Stuart Collection, one of which is Do Ho Suh’s Fallen Star on top of the Jacob’s Engineering Building. We created a 3D model of this sculpture by drafting in Autodesk Inventor and printing it out on the Ultimaker 2.
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Scott Mcavoy edited the blog post 3D Modeling/Animating a UCSD Shuttle Transformer in the group
Digital Humanities: 2 weeks agoEdgar’s been training up with 3DS. Inspired by the UCSD shuttles and dumb transformers movies we decided to try out this concept.
Here’s the model on sketchfab:
The Digital Media Lab is located in Geisel Library, 2nd Floor East. We offer free 3D printing and advanced media consultations for all UCSD…[Read more]
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Scott Mcavoy edited the blog post 3D Geisel Model in the group
Digital Humanities: 2 weeks agoWe’ve spent a lot of time modeling Geisel. We used campus floor plans, laser measurements, and Autodesk Inventor to build it.
It’s an important symbol for the campus and for La Jolla, people seem really excited about it. We’ve made the files available for VR viewing and download below:
Hi Res…[Read more]
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Scott Mcavoy edited the blog post Painting in VR with Tiltbrush in the group
Digital Humanities: 2 weeks agoTiltbrush isn HTC Vive VR game which lets you paint in 3D space with your controller. It’s really fun to work this way.
Here’s one of Crystals creations, a beta fish. (sketchfab)
The Digital Media Lab is located in Geisel Library, 2nd Floor South. We do free 3D printing…[Read more]
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Scott Mcavoy edited the blog post Photogrammetry – 3D Scanning Gnome in the group
Digital Humanities: 2 weeks agoThis is our lab’s pet Gnome, we love him despite his sad judgmental gaze. Using photogrammetry software we were able to take a bunch of pictures from different angles and stitch them together into a complete 3D model. See the complete version here.
This is getting to be a big…[Read more]
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Scott Mcavoy edited the blog post 3D Geisel Floorplan in Sketchup in the group
Digital Humanities: 2 weeks agoPlaying with wayfinding application, we decided to make some 3D floorplans of the Geisel Library’s 2nd floor. We already had the CAD floorplans, so for most areas it was just adding another 9ft line on the z axis. The entrance required some manual measuring though. A benefit of using sketchfab (link below) is that users can load the model in VR…[Read more]